Graphics + writing text at angle

[boroski]

Hi,

Does anyone know how to implement :

g.drawString(....);

so that the string is drawn at an angle eg 30deg

cheers

[cjard]

niiiice question.. havent got a clue, tbh, but i doubt that it would be simple.. you might have to drawstring to an off-screen buffer, then rotate that image, and paint it in...

someone else has tried it, have a look at this:

http://www.risner.org/java/rotate_text.html

[cjard]

and another way, if java 1.2 or greater is used, is to play with Graphics2D.. note that rotate() rotates everything!

read this doc:

http://www.ictp.trieste.it/~manuals/programming/Java/tutorial/2d/problems/

(search for "rotate" and read the section

[Sir Sapo]

Ok i have never tried this but I've seen it done before,
you are going to have to import java.awt.font.* and then use Graphics2D to draw the angled text. Use the .drawString method to write the text, then on a new line, use write g2d.rotate(Math.PI/2.0);

That will rotate the text by 90 degrees, if you want to rotate it by a different amount of degrees, just replace the Math.PI/2.0 with your amount of degrees.

If it works, let me know please.

[cjard]

Originally posted by Sir Sapo
just replace the Math.PI/2.0 with your amount of degrees.

If it works, let me know please.

specifically, it shouldnt work, because java deals in radians, so a rotate of 75 degrees, following the advice of "just replace math.pi/2.0 with your number of degrees":

g2d.rotate(75);

will not work.. thats a rotation of 75 rads.. very different to degrees... to convert to radians, its:

DEGREES * PI/180

because there are 2 * PI radians in a circle.. so:

75/360 * 2 * PI => 75/180 * PI (seventyfive threesixty'ths of a 2pi circle)